Saturday, October 17, 2009

On Call Follies

Dr. Grumpy (starting to look through a chart): "Why did they consult neurology on this guy?"

Nurse: "He had a seizure this morning. Dr. Stevens came by an hour ago, and thought it was from the antibiotic."

Dr. Grumpy: "Hmmm... Why is he in the hospital in the first place?"

Nurse: "Dr. Stevens? Uh, I think he was making rounds."

13 comments:

  1. hee hee - sounds like something i'd say just to piss off someone!

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  2. Rumack: You'd better tell the Captain we've got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital.

    Elaine: A hospital? What is it?

    Rumack: It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.

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  3. Haha, awesome!

    You know, with the doctors you always talk about.. she may have had to answer that exact question before and just did it out of habit, lol.

    -Flavius

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  4. Anon- Yeah, I thought of calling the post "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."

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  5. Or she could have said,"hospital?!"

    and you could have replied, "Yes, it's a big building with patients in it,but that's not important right now".

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  6. I'm definitely making the right career choice to be a Dental Hygienist rather than a nurse than right? Because I just don't know that I would be able to handle that. I have little patience for dull knives.....

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  7. What is scary is that the nurse thinks she answered your question and was being helpful.

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  8. The scary state of nursing care in hospitals these days....As a nurse, isn't it part of her job to know....(just my thoughts as a nurse)

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  9. Kim, yes. You'll be thinking "open your mouth and shut up!!" a lot, but dental hygienist is an excellent career choice.

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  10. She was probably nervous to talk to you, Grumpy, because OMG you're a DOCTOR! SCARY!

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  11. Yeah, that's right!

    These doctors and the questions they ask.

    Seriously, what did you expect Dr. Stephens to be doing at the hospital? Playing golf?

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  12. I'm afraid Nurse K's got it right.

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So wadda you think?